Tried to boot up Gentoo 10.0 live dvd, once just by pressing enter, once by typing "gentoo-nofb" and pressing enter.

Both times after some boot process I was able to choose keyboard layout and hear music playing, but instead of a login prompt or any X desktop showing up, I just got a black screen with an underscore-cursor blinking in the top left, and everything appearing completely frozen, except the DVD-Drive spinning up/down for a second every minute or so.

Side Notes:
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I've never tried Gentoo before and thought live DVD might be a good opportunity.
Yesterday, I also tried "Sabayon 5.0" live DVD, which I understand is a distro based off Gentoo, just consisting of precompiled binaries instead. Sabayon 5.0 would boot up completely fine and work out of the box, not sure whether this info might be important in any way. Generic live dvds of other distributions also "just boot" fine (Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, Suse).

I just registered in this forum for reporting this problem, read the FAQ, searched a bit, and hope I found the correct thread for posting.
regards

Tried to boot up Gentoo 10.0 live dvd, once just by pressing enter, once by typing "gentoo-nofb" and pressing enter.

Both times after some boot process I was able to choose keyboard layout and hear music playing, but instead of a login prompt or any X desktop showing up, I just got a black screen with an underscore-cursor blinking in the top left, and everything appearing completely frozen, except the DVD-Drive spinning up/down for a second every minute or so.

Side Notes:
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I've never tried Gentoo before and thought live DVD might be a good opportunity.
Yesterday, I also tried "Sabayon 5.0" live DVD, which I understand is a distro based off Gentoo, just consisting of precompiled binaries instead. Sabayon 5.0 would boot up completely fine and work out of the box, not sure whether this info might be important in any way. Generic live dvds of other distributions also "just boot" fine (Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, Suse).

I just registered in this forum for reporting this problem, read the FAQ, searched a bit, and hope I found the correct thread for posting.
regards

there seems to be issues with intel drivers and these should be fixed on the upcoming revision. Please open a bug with 'lspci'. You will find the livedvd bug thread on the first page of this topic or one the other thread related to the livedvd.

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject: Nice new live but the 10.0 has issues the RC did not for me.

I will have to go back and look but both network and sound modules fail to load with this 10.0 disk for me that I downloaded yesterday. The previous RC I got the day before worked fine, MD5sum was good?

Versions tested:
10.0/ 2009-Oct-04 20:21:28 - Directory Not so good for me
10.0_pre20090926-1952/ 2009-Sep-28 14:39:43 - Directory Good for me

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: Nice new live but the 10.0 has issues the RC did not for

nikodell wrote:

I will have to go back and look but both network and sound modules fail to load with this 10.0 disk for me that I downloaded yesterday. The previous RC I got the day before worked fine, MD5sum was good?

Versions tested:
10.0/ 2009-Oct-04 20:21:28 - Directory Not so good for me
10.0_pre20090926-1952/ 2009-Sep-28 14:39:43 - Directory Good for me

I tried the live dvd today. It could not recognize any of my usb devices. lsusb didn't report any device. Nothing connected on a usb port wasn't working (mouse, webcam, wireless, etc). I even tried modprobe some modules my self.

Sorry not have had the opportunity to answer before, but concerning my problem with the previous version, yes of course I did check the md5sum, which was correct .
I will try with the latest version whenever possible ( this week-end, I hope)

I haven't had time to test everything, but I can confirm boot and basic functionality on Biostar Tpower X58 with I7 920. Although I have the pata controller and onboard sound disabled will test more when I have time

I tried the live dvd today. It could not recognize any of my usb devices.
Does anyone else face the same issue?

It seems I have the same problem. My mouse doesnt work. lsusb shows nothing.
My mouse is recognized as Macintosh Mouse Button Emulation at the start-up. I tried to connect different mouses - same result. My motherboard is asus P5K

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It is in our best interest to just instruct users to manually download any close source binaries.

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T43 thinkpad and Dell 2400 with no extra boot parameters ... and on a dell mini9, but for the mini9 i had to use gentoo-nofb, and kde environment has black screen with flickering issues. Boots fine into xfce4, flux and gnome though. Eventually i'd really like to use this usb environment to install on the mini9 as it has an SSD mini pci-e drive.